Sentence examples for sparked sales from inspiring English sources

Favorable reviews sparked sales.

For now, automakers' push to sell electric cars "has sparked sales to early adopters but has failed to encourage mainstream consumers," said Jean François Tremblay, director at Ernst & Young's Global Automotive Center.

Intense interest in the novel resulted in a spate of Code-related books and sparked sales of Brown's earlier works; in 2004 all four of his novels appeared simultaneously on The New York Times best-seller lists.

It was largely that technological awareness that allowed the book to find a publisher, the obscure Naval Institute Press, but the New York publishing legend Robert Gottlieb read it in proof, and as word of mouth and a plug from the then president Ronald Reagan sparked sales, it went into the mainstream.

His name and related efforts sparked sales of at least half a billion dollars to date from a panoply of pursuits the bestselling CD of 2005 (8 million copies), the bestselling ringtones of the year (3.2 million downloads), a budding career as an actor, a Reebok sneaker line, hip-hop apparel, a videogame, music publishing, his own label with a roster of rap protégés and more.

Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles had relatively lackluster sales in 2011, and advocates believe that California's regulations would help to spark sales.

To spark sales, Bernays came up with the idea of promoting bacon and eggs as an alternative to coffee and toast — a breakfast that not only tasted good but was inexpensive and gave people energy.

That plan has been delayed, however, by the continued popularity there of the aerial spectacle "De la Guarda," which has added a D.J. night on Thursdays to spark sales understandably fatigued by a four-year run.

When carmakers label something as limited edition, it typically means they've added leather and slapped on some chrome badging to spark sales in the middle of a model cycle.

Immediately north of the projects, on Jackson between Seventh and Eighth Streets, the high-end Velocity complex, a 24-hour-concierge building, is being actively marketed to "luxury buyers" — starting with an auction last month to spark sales.

"If you look back at the pizza category over the last 10 years, what sparks sales is new products," said Charlie Miesmer, vice chairman at the principal Pizza Hut agency, BBDO New York, part of the BBDO Worldwide unit of the Omnicom Group.